Catalina Park
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| Location | Katoomba, New South Wales |
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| Time zone | GMT +10 |
| Coordinates | 33°42′44″S 150°18′14″E / 33.71222°S 150.30389°ECoordinates: 33°42′44″S 150°18′14″E / 33.71222°S 150.30389°E |
| Owner | Blue Mountains City Council |
| Operator | Australian Racing Drivers Club |
| Opened | 12 February 1961 |
| Closed | 1970 |
| Major events | 1962 Australian Formula Junior Championship |
| Turns | 7 |
| Lap record | 0:53.4 (Frank Matich, Matich SR4 Repco, 1969, Group A Sports Cars) |
Catalina Park is a disused motor racing venue, located at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, and is recognised as an Aboriginal Place due to the long association of the local Gundungarra and Darug clans to the area.
The 2.1 km circuit opened on 12 February 1961. Race meetings were staged by the Australian Racing Drivers Club in association with the Blue Mountains Sporting Drivers Club through to 1969, at which time the ARDC took over the Amaroo Park circuit. A race meeting was organized by the BMSDC in January 1970, however the club went into liquidation the following year. At the time of the circuit's closure, the lap record was credited to Frank Matich (Matich SR4) at 53.4 seconds, an average lap speed of 141 km/h.
Originally used for top level motorsport including touring car, open wheeler, motorcycle and sidecar racing in the 1960s. The mountain location caused problems with fog causing delays in the race programs, also the track was very narrow by today's standards and surrounded by walls, armco railings and hillside. The track became used less with the opening of other circuits nearer to Sydney such as Oran Park and Amaroo Park.
In the 1970s the circuit was used for Rallycross, where the cars would use half the bitumen track and a dirt infield section with jumps, like .
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